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[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

Any word on the Korean Restaurant that was going to go in the ExDonalds? There seems to be nothing happening there.

And speaking of nothing happening, how come the city ripped out Kenney Park and then stopped working? The park's been out of commission for months of just sitting there a mess. Shame on them for doing the demo when they weren't ready to do the reconstruction; it's a waste of good space.

Anyone have the scoop on either of these?

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[mary388.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure why they even needed to do anything with Kenney park except maybe make the water feature work again. I think it was a waste of money to tear up the whole area.
I hope this wasn't the CPA tax money at work..

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

There were some problems with the structures that could use repair, they are adding some baby-friendly structures, getting rid of the mulch surface that collected needles, and (best of all) finally adding picnic tables. The park was great but those, in particular the last two, in particular the last one, were issues we always noticed and were very happy to find out would be remedied.

Having just moved, we're no longer a couple of blocks away so won't be there as often even once it's done, but I'm still glad it's happening, and we will still be there sometimes.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

The drawing that's posted on the fence says "Tables to be provided later by others" or some such. It didn't look like they were installing tables but just saying "someone else could hypothetically put tables here." Unless I missed some somewhere else in the drawing? that's totally possible.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Bottom right: http://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/Kenney-DD-Illus_2.jpg
"New metal ribbon picnic tables"

(It's very hard to read and they won't put a bigger version online for whatever reason.)

Last I looked at the fence, it was the same drawing.

I see something up top about other tables, but I can't make it out. In any case, I meant the ones in the playground

why do anything?

[msiebler.livejournal.com]

Mary, if you ever played b-ball there you would quickly realize the court needed work. So I am glad they are doing that. However, I am a little surprised; it looks like they are going to put benches next to the court? Hard to tell from the pic. If so; that would seem like an odd choice to me. More than anything; I was hoping they would make the court a little bigger, but it doesn't look like they are doing that.